Another recent short from the Quays that’s yet to be given a wider release, Eurydice…She, So Beloved (2007) is an opera/dance piece subtitled “Film ballet in homage to the 100th anniversary of Claudio Monteverdi’s Orfeo“. Orfeo (Simon Keenlyside) sings an aria while Hermes (Kenneth Tharp) rouses Eurydice (Zenaida Yanowsky) from her sleep in a suitably Stygian and rather industrial Underworld. Watch it here.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Inventorium of Traces, a film by the Brothers Quay
• Maska: Stanislaw Lem and the Brothers Quay
• Stille Nacht V: Dog Door
• Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist’s Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets
• Brothers Quay scarcities
• Crossed destinies revisited
• Crossed destinies: when the Quays met Calvino
• The Brothers Quay on DVD